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C. T. JUDKINS. WEAVBRS HARNESS.

No. 7,939.` Patented Peb. 1,8, 1851.

CHARLES T. JUDKINS, OFLOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS. n

' WEAVERS HEDDLE.

Specification of Letters IPatent No. 7,939, dated February 18, 1851.

To all whom t may concern: n

Be it known that I, the undersigned, CHARLES TIo'r JUDKINS, of Lowell,in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts and United States ofAmerica, gentleman, have discovered a new and useful improve` ment inweavers harness, which consists in covering or partially inclosing orcasing or lining with any suitable metal that part ofthe harness or thatpart of the heddlesof looms through which the warp-threads are passed tobe elevated and depressed in the operation of weaving. 'n

One form of weavers harness or heddles which are in general, use is madeof twine with loops or eyes through which the warp passes and which areformed by Vknotting the twine at the top and bottom of such loops.Another .form of weavers harnessor heddles is that shown by the modelthe same having been patented by Kasimar Nogel.

This metal casing or lining may be added to or covered over the eyes `orloops or harness or heddles of whatever fibrous, substance they Inay bemade whereby they are more durable and less injurious to the warp thanwhen used without a metal lining.

The manner in which I carry my invention into ope-ration is by takingeach eye or loop of harness or heddle and introduc-v ing into it a pieceof metal shaped `like that in the drawing and model, then `closing orpressing the thin piece of metal on each side against the eye or loopwhereby `it becomes fixed. t

` as, a, represents the heddles of the har` B, represents the eye orloop ofthe heddle covered with a metallic substance as hereinbeforedescribed.

C is 'the front view of a piece of metal which I insert into the eye orloop of the heddle.

D, is the edge view of the same.

Having now described the nature of my invention and in `what manner thesame is carried into ei'ect` I declare that I do not claim metal incombination with harness or heddles when used in the solid state and Xedto the harness or heddle yarn at each end such heddle yarn not beingcontinuous as in myinvention but a What I do claim as my invention is-'-Covering coating or lining the loops or eyes in heddles or harness withmetal by the process I have shown or by any equivalent process. i n

In testimonywhereof I the said CHARLES `TIOT JUDKINS, have heretosubscribed my name in the presence of the witnesses whose names are`hereto subscribed on the twenty third Vday of March in the year of ourLord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

" VVILLM. CONDELL,

SAM PEARCE.

